Thanks to our reader James for letting us know about some current (but temporary) system issues at Hotmail - details at https://status.live.com/detail/Hotmail
UPDATE:
As of now (10:30 on Jan 9), Hotmail is still having issues. Problems seem to be isolated to mobile clients using Activesync.
UPDATE:
MS is now comitting to an update by 11:20PM (not sure which timezone thats in).
Cloud services are great, except when theyre not!
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